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tow21 commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell · Posted by u/cvbox

mlitwiniuk · 2 days ago

Humadroid (https://humadroid.io) - AI-Assisted SOC 2 & ISO 27001 compliance for small teams. $125/month flat (for now, during beta).

Recently crossed the $500/month mark after a painful pivot from HR tech earlier this year. The whole thing started because I did ISO 27001 back in 2019 and was completely lost - overpaid for consultants, got lost with policies and controls, figured it out the hard way.

Passed SOC 2 Type I earlier this year using only Humadroid (yes, dogfooding a compliance tool through an actual audit was... an experience).

Currently finishing automated evidence collection (AWS and GitHub integrations first). Pretty proud of that one - compliance shouldn't mean "panic-screenshot everything before audit."

tow21 · 2 days ago

Really cool stuff, I thought about launching something similar earlier this year, there's definitely a market there. I see a lot of AI-ative startups coming up against compliance requirements way earlier than before, with much smaller teams, and most existing solutions just need too much from you as you engage.

How do you see yourself against someone like delve.co?

tow21 commented on UniFi 5G blog.ui.com/article/intro... · Posted by u/janandonly

kkapelon · 15 days ago

OTD500 is antenna + router in a single box. There is nothing else needed. I just put it outdoors with a POE cable. Originally, I used it as a backup, but now I have an unlimited SIM, so I use it as a second internet connection.

If you mean the standard routers (like the Rutx50), Teltonika itself sells external enclosures with antennas. https://www.teltonika-networks.com/products/accessories/ante...

tow21 · 15 days ago

Yeah, I know - but an antenna embedded within a small box is going to be much less effective than a big old directional Yagi antenna like https://www.satshop.fi/en/4g/4g-5g/4g-antennas.html

Seems weird to cripple the product by not allowing me to (optionally) disable the internal antenna and instead use and tune an external antenna. And I suspect that is likely to make a difference when you are on the edge of coverage, but you know exactly where the relevant cell tower is, a few km away.

tow21 commented on UniFi 5G blog.ui.com/article/intro... · Posted by u/janandonly

kkapelon · 15 days ago

I am already doing what is shown in the video with Teltonika OTD500, fully unlocked and with esim support as well.

tow21 · 15 days ago

How does the Teltonika work out for you - I nearly bought it earlier this year but it doesn't have support for external antennae. I'm just on the edge of 5G coverage and I'm not sure I want to splash out on something which I can't tune for decent reception.

Seems an odd omission for a ruggedised outside modem - the Unifi also seems to not support external antennae.

(I'd also prefer a unifi version just so it fits in the with rest of the networking infra I have in the mökki.)

tow21 commented on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality' bbc.com/news/articles/cwy... · Posted by u/jillesvangurp

nabla9 · a month ago

Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon will get through easily. They don't have excessive debt. They can afford to lose their investments into AI. Their valuations will take a hit. Nvidia will lose revenue and profits, stock will go down by 60% or more, but it will also survive.

Oracle will likely fail. It funded its AI pivot with debt. The Debt-to-Revenue ratio is 1.77, the Debt-to-Equity ratio D/E is 520, and it has a free cash flow problem.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and others will be bought for cents on the dollar.

tow21 · a month ago

Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon might get through easily as companies. I don't think all G/M/M/A staff will get through easily.

tow21 commented on Dead Framework Theory aifoc.us/dead-framework-t... · Posted by u/jhuleatt

tow21 · a month ago

On the plus side, maybe this means the endless churn of JS libraries will finally slow down and as someone who isn’t a JS developer but occasionally needs to dip their toe into the ecosystem, I can actually get stuff done without having to worry about 6-month old tutorials being wrong and getting caught in endless upgrade hell.

tow21 commented on You can't cURL a Border drobinin.com/posts/you-ca... · Posted by u/valzevul

cesarb · 2 months ago

> I am a citizen of country A but live and work in country B [...] I also have to pay taxes to country A, which involves more paperwork.

Isn't that the case only when country A is the USA? AFAIK, nearly all countries in the world tax only residents, not citizens, so in most cases you'd only have to fill tax paperwork (and pay taxes) for country B.

tow21 · 2 months ago

Only if you're only talking about income from work. If you own property in country A which you rent out while you live & work in country B, then you probably still owe tax on that rental income in country A. (but it will depend on the exact wording of the relevant DTA if one exists)

And since you are now filling in two tax returns for different countries, with different tax allowances across rental income and work income which interact in decidedly non-linear fashion, you probably need to make sure both country A and B have no confusion about where your work income was earned.

Having spent the last 8 years obsessively counting days across the UK and Finland (and every other country I have visited) exactly to account for this scenario, I am very sympathetic to attempts to solve this problem space!

tow21 commented on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump... · Posted by u/bhouston

compumike · 8 months ago

Is it just the historical legacy of international trade that tariffs apply only to physical goods, but not to something like software-as-a-service subscriptions, digital media, or intellectual property?

As the latter categories are more representative of US exports, it would surely be an interesting escalation if other countries were to start including them in their “retaliatory” tariffs.

tow21 · 8 months ago

Much harder to enforce against services.

Physical goods you can hold until tariffs are paid.

Services are paid for by invoices between two corporate entities whose legal domicile may have nothing to do with the real country of origin of the services.

Lots of European SaaS providers invoice US customers from their US subsidiary - impossible to distinguish the transaction in order to put a tariff on it.

tow21 commented on A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up captrice.io/... · Posted by u/adityaathalye

hexie · 9 months ago

This is awesome! I made a very similar tool to help myself practice progressions specifically for banjo: https://banjo-rolls-deluxe.twait.dev/

Far fewer features than your app, but just having a tool to help nail down the muscle memory of pre-built progressions has been massively helpful for me as a banjo-player-in-training.

Your exercise builder is awesome and something I was planning on building into my site, might take some inspo!

tow21 · 9 months ago

Brilliant! Literally my first thought when I saw the original submission was “I wish there was a banjo version”!

Definitely will be using your app.

tow21 commented on Most people don't care about quality shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/... · Posted by u/ColinWright

tow21 · a year ago

Otherwise pointless pedantry, but in line with the "nobody cares about quality" ...

"the hoi polloi" grates every time I read it. "hoi polloi" literally means "the many", so this is an awkward pleonasm, "the the many", amounting to a lack of quality in a piece of writing.

tow21 commented on Code that helped end Apartheid wired.com/story/plaintext... · Posted by u/impish9208

McBainiel · a year ago

The tech side of this is really cool but I'd also like to read more about the non-tech stuff. I wonder if the sympathetic Dutch flight attendant is still alive or the guys who actually carried the Trojan horse books to Mandela.

What an amazing story!

tow21 · a year ago

Coincidentally I was reading this story yesterday:

https://www.londonrecruits.org.uk/index.php/items-received-s...

about the “London Recruits” in the 70s and 80s who smuggled books, leaflets, etc into apartheid SA on behalf of the ANC, doing so in such secrecy they didn’t know each others identity until 29 years after the apartheid regime fell.

Joy Leman, one of the recruits, was my late father-in-law’s colleague.